What is the appeal behind this show? And why do I see everyone frequently flaunting it around and needlessly obsessing over it? I've watched a couple episodes but I can't say I'm a fan, if anything, it's makes it's popularly more confusing to me. It's character design is good sure, but that's the only quality I admire about it. I don't particularly like any of the characters nor any of the situations they're involved in, not to mention the animation is severely stiff at times. Surely, design can't be the only reason it's successful.

Again, Polar Bear Cafe had the same targeted demographics and fanbase but was a much more enjoyable and well done show. It's not that Aggretsuko has a bad premise, it just doesn't work well with it or keep an interesting pace. Seeing as the company who made the show are the same people behind Hello Kitty, it makes me believe marketing fuckery and character design really are the only reasons it's getting out there. That and it might be this show was purposely written as bland as possible in an attempt to appear relateable. Not just furfags and Tumblr are praising it.

It's cute. It has adult-focused humor without being crass and vulgar. The main character's struggles are equally comedic and sympathetic. The characters are charming and can be more nuanced than expected. Its sense of humor is cynical but retains enough optimism to stay relatively upbeat instead of becoming a sad pity party or black comedy. It has some funny gags. And it's cute.

Because its shown on Netflix and made by Sanrio, the creators of hello kitty. People always talk about the netflix shows because it is what most people will have seen due to ease of accessibility. Personally I just think its just a bit bland, not bad but not anything particularly good either. I suppose some viewers can connect to it since its about office work and it might strike close to home.

I swear these people are the most unaware of history. They are actively destroying everything even our anime. Thank god Japan hasn't even looked in the direction of the feminist virus of you know who else

This shit is an attempt to undermine Japanese anime in favor of netflix anime shows(which are shit compared to true anime).

I was aware of it's existed before then because furry porn, although I paid no attention to it beside I knew it would be something I wouldn't like, but as more and more people began latching onto it I had to watch at least 1 episode to try and understand the craze. Long story short, confused anon and this thread.

Slice of Life is an overrated and overdone genre, Polar Bear Cafe is the only one I've seen that at least attempts to be interesting or less mundane. And it plays around with the fact that some of the characters are animals and doesn't try to play a one note narrative. Retsuko's problem is that there's no motivation or incentive to watch her succeed or get better, I can't care for any of the characters when Retsuko doesn't, she doesn't even care for herself.

I don't think your criticisms hold up the further into the show you get. You could watch it and see if it solves any of your issues with the first couple of episodes. Or you could just give up and resign yourself to the unfathomable mystery of the popularity of a cutesy short young adult anime series on Netflix.

>not entirely terrible

<That's a bigger flaw than being bad.

This is just a meme that people use to shit on average shows that aren't nearly as flawed as the actual bad shit.

That's not an argument. I'm not wading through 10 episodes only to find 4 or so good moments, when it comes to shows like these, I don't mind spoiling myself to see if it's worth the time or if my premonitions are correct. I already mentioned a far better show in the same genre.

And the difference between a bad show and a mediocre show is that a bad show can try and fail while a mediocre show lingers, flounders, and outlives it's welcome. I didn't say there was anything wrong with average, you seem to be confusing the two or at least I don't consider them to be the same. Mediocre is far worse than average. A show can have average moments and still be great or still be mediocre. An average show at least sprinkled with good moments and isn't consistently bland.

And you can't say anything about the show's consistency because you barely watched it. Then you made a thread to go "I JUST DON'T GET IT YOU GUIZ, AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T GET IT???" What did you want, for a bunch of anons to pat you on the back and jerk you off for dropping it? Congratulations, you spent an hour on an anime, didn't like it, stopped watching, made a thread on /a/ to complain about how you didn't like it with little more criticism than "I don't like it" and "the bear show was better." And then you dragged in this "ACTUALLY, by not being BAD bad, this show is actually WORSE than bad" nonsense.

What's the point of making this thread when you have fuck-all to discuss?

I've seen a couple of the original shorts circulating on social media sites, but it was more of a passing thing, rather than a "fandom".. now we're seeing fanart, shipping, and all the typical normalfag cancer exactly because it's a netflix series. The ease of access and width of distribution means as many normalfags as possible can see it and further ruin anime.

I follow the 3-episode rule, if it doesn't catch me by then, it's lost me.

>What's the point of making this thread when you have fuck-all to discuss?

That's my problem, the show itself doesn't give much to work with. What the hell would you want to discuss? Fire away. Give me material instead of saying insisting I'm wrong and can't dislike something you like and provide actual arguments instead of condescendingly mocking me. I'm at least trying to understand why people like it and discuss what I do know or what I think because even I believe my own judgements are unfair to an extent, but eventually I know I should shrug it off and admit to myself this isn't my sort of thing regardless if it's an objectively good show. Retsuko isn't pitiable, I can't support her from what I know from the first 3 episodes and sometimes that isn't a problem if there's a decent supporting cast. But there isn't. None of these characters have any personality aside from "work sucks/anger", "so-and-so did this", and "it'll get better." And I know they develop more later on, but there should at least be a sliver to grab onto. I don't care how truly reflective this is of actual Japanese office culture or society, Japan is a hellhole to live in in this regard. There needs to be at least some focus on driving an actual plot or narrative, like an event or some sort of life scenario, rather than just living it out. Polar Bear Cafe does this and another Netflix show, Bojack Horseman does this. And in Bojack's defense, at least I wanted to see Bojack get better, at least I wanted to see how things would turn out. I'm not saying it's a good show, but in that respect it's a better show because it pulled me in and got me to watch at least the first season. With Retsuko, I expect her to return to her office and have something to be angry about. I have no reason to keep watching because nothing is making me want to see how events pan out for her nor do I care.

Are you going to come up with an actual argument or are you just going to argue semantics and hypothetical chan club newfaggotry? I did debate posting this thread on /co/ as I'm more frequent there, but ultimately I decided here because it's more of an anime and /a/ seems to have a wider variety of differing consensus. I already told you I'm open towards being convinced there's one good episode and I don't mind starting there if it can alleviate my current thoughts towards it. I don't believe in outright disliking something and I wouldn't have made this thread if I didn't believe there was material for discussion. If you want content or discussion, the first step is providing some yourself. Your negative attitude is almost as bad as Retsuko's, no wonder.

Also, despite not being that involved into the show, I'm aware of Resasuke and the whole scenario involving him. It throws me off a bit knowing that Haida has feelings towards Retsuko, when in this kind of world, they're all different animals and realistically a Red Panda can't have kids with a Hyena. Does this feel odd to anyone else?

Your gripes seem to be particularly finicky and therefor non-existent, I don't see why there's a problem. I've frequented /a/ before, but only recently have I encountered this type of hostility here among the rise of the newfag boogeyman blame game that I thought was exclusive to certain board autists. Quit fooling yourself into believing that we warrant enough traffic to encounter the constant influx of newfags like we used to. It was a simple mistake I mistook you for the other anon, I tend to blend everyone together. But my point still stands that I was using the greentext to mock his post. I don't see why you have to take it upon yourself to autistically police "newfags" when in reality, actual newfags will ignore it and continue to wrong post until they adapt on their own.

And if you didn't like Aggretsuko, this is the thread to talk about it. Again, spend less time worrying about the semantics of particular posts and focus on the actual quality of discussion or posting. We're arguing over such miniscule details when it's unlikely to happen again and only serves to derail the more we kvetch about it. I'll keep in mind /a/ might be a different place from when I used to browse it, but as it stands further hostility is unnecessary.